Sunday April 27th 2025 "Do YOU use a mirror to conjure up the occasional prophetic 'vision'?"

Yes friends, how do YOU 'summon up' YOUR prophetic visions, so you can get a "heads up" about what's going to happen to you, for example, next week at the office, say, or at that crucial upcoming job interview? 

A lot of people are finding that it helps to use a 'scrying mirror' these days, and they simply sit in front of it, and those 'visions' just pop up - it's almost like magic! It cuts out most of the "fol-de-rol" with the  encouraging of prophetic visions, and best of all it cuts the time down, which is a bit of a life-saver, if you've got that cross-town bus to catch on a busy Monday morning, say!

a busy career-woman checking her 'scrying mirror'

to see what sort of a day she's going to be having

before catching the bus to work in the morning

There's a downside however - we can become too dependent on our scrying mirrors, and then wish we'd kept a diary of upcoming events, Like this local man in this morning's Onion News (East Hampshire edition) - did you 'catch' it, I wonder?

The poor guy couldn't even get to his 'scrying mirror' today, because he'd forgotten the incantation enabling him to get to his mirror, which he keeps in a special stone chamber where he keeps all his valuables. It's easily done, isn't it, and eventually a locksmith had to be called, which all tended to create a bit of a kerfuffle, to put it mildly! A lot of us have been through that, haven't we!

Yes, scrying mirrors are so useful, and yet, my medium-to-long-suffering wife Lois and I have to hold our hands up today and confess we've "never bothered" to acquire this essential household item. 

my medium-to-long-suffering wife Lois and me

the couple that seemingly has everything, apart from

one thing: a scrying mirror, would you believe !!!

However, as of January this year, we find we're living now just down the road, actually, from poor  Len Garrison, so we might just call on him "on spec" (!), if we need a heads-up about something coming up like a routine blood-test for instance, which Yours Truly got coming up this week. Just saying!

now comfortably installed in leafy, semi-rural Liphook, Hampshire,

Lois and I find we're less than 32 miles from the nearest "scrying mirror'',

at Blue Ball Hill near Winchester, home of local media sensation Len Garrison 

(see story above (!))

Yes, it's true, however. We haven't got a scrying mirror we can call on in any emergency, unfortunately. Every other kind of mirror - well, we've got a billion of them, they're almost legion (!), especially since we moved into our new home here in leafy, semi-rural Liphook, Hampshire, The previous residents installed them all over the master bedroom, and we've also found a ton of full-length mirrors stacked up inside the garage. 

Somebody must have "fancied themselves something rotten" (!), that's what Lois and I say!

flashback to last October: Lois and I look round the house

we eventually decided to buy, here in rural, semi-leafy Liphook

Today, however, if we started the day with 'n mirrors' (n=umpteen, for the non-mathematician!), we ended the day with '(n-1 mirrors.. In layman's terms, we have one less mirror tonight than we started with. Our dear daughter Alison, who lives just 5 miles away from us, over in Headley, agreed to take one off our hands, so that's a start!

Let me know if YOU'd like one, dear Reader. But remember, postcards only and don't all write at once, for heaven's sake - please (!). Oh, and it's "collection only": apologies!

[Is that all you two 'noggins' have done today, Colin? Palmed off one of your so-called 'legion of mirrors' onto your poor long-to-extra-long-suffering-daughter Alison? - Ed]

Well, seeing as you're asking (!), we've actually had quite a busy day, by our standards (!).

[That's enough exclamation marks in brackets (!) - Ed]

Lois and I actually got up super-early this morning for a 9:30 am video whatsapp call with our other daughter Sarah, who moved with husband Francis and their 11-year-old twins Lily and Jessica to Perth, Australia last September. Sarah has an accountancy job over there, while continuing "remotely" to do her old accountancy job in Evesham UK. 

Sarah's always got some deadline to work to, either in Perth or in Evesham or both (!), and during our whatsapp call today we can hear her typing away on her laptop just out of shot, when we're talking to the twins. What madness !!!!

There's an up-side to Sarah doing two jobs, however, one in Australia and one in the UK, because she'll be able to fly over to the UK with the twins and stay with us for a couple of weeks in July, "writing her expenses off" for tax-purposes or some such malarkey - Lois and I don't really understand it. We're not financial wizards to put it mildly, but Sarah's an accountant so she can work these "dodges" with her eyes shut, no sweat !!!!

flashback to 2015, Evesham UK: Sarah (second from right) joins 

with her colleagues,  as they meet to celebrate the firm's 80th birthday.

10:30 Then, after the whatsapp call to Australia ends, Lois and I race about 9 miles down the B2070 to just outside Petersfield, Hampshire, for her church's Sunday Morning Meeting.

When we arrive at the village hall where the church's services are held, we find there's a bit of a crisis going on. This week's visiting preacher has phoned through to say that his car has broken down just outside Winchester, and that he won't be able to get to Petersfield in time to address the meeting this morning. Luckily, local church-member Roger, from Havant in the what-I-call "Benny Hill side of the county" has volunteered to step in, and give us an impromptu talk, all with his rich, gently-'rhotic', "Old Hampshire burrrrr", which is nice!

Lois and I arrive at the village hall to find Lois's fellow-church-members

in some disarray: this week's visiting preacher has rung to say that his car has

broken down near Winchester and he won't be able to get to the meeting in time:

(left) Lois, standing second from right, discusses the situation with Vernon (seated, right)

Roger saves the day, effectively, with his impromptu address. But the question remains, however: if the visiting preacher had thought to invest in a "scrying mirror" he would perhaps have foreseen his car breaking down and been able to provide Roger with a bit more notice of his impending non-arrival. 

I wonder..... !

21:00 We decide to go to bed on another 'mindless but relaxing' (!) Channel 5 documentary about the Royals, "Secrets of the Royal Traditions", which is nice.

Lois and I didn't know that Charles II was almost responsible for the royal family's crown jewels being lost to posterity, back in the 17th century. It was Charles who made the decision to put them on public display, when they weren't in use, for the public to pay money to come along to the Tower of London and see them.

Yes, that Charles II, he was just a bit too "trusting", wasn't he, to put it mildly !!!!

And yes, you've guessed it - Charles, while obviously wanting to make the Royals more "accessible" and "inclusive" too, perhaps, especially after all the unpleasantness of the Civil War, and the Commonwealth under Oliver Cromwell - while commendably "democratising" the Crown Jewels, it has to be said that Charles was taking a bit of a risk at the same time.

Speaking personally I don't think I'd care to have a massive 'sceptre' and a bunch of 'orbs' down my trousers, thank you very much, and I'm not sure I'd be quite comfortable mentally, and even less, physically (!), when edging my way out through the exit under the watchful eyes of the guards. 

Call me a wimp if you like haha !!!! But I don't really even want to attempt it at the moment, so soon after my "operation" (!) - next year perhaps.

Again, any half-decent "scrying mirror" might have alerted Charles, and his guards, to the threat posed by Thomas Blood and his friends before they even tried staging their ill-fated, right royal "heist" at the Tower, do you think?

I wonder.... !

Will this do?

[Oh just go to bed! - Ed]

22:00 We go to bed - zzzzzzzz!!!!!!